Listeners of National Public Radio can hear Christopher O'Riley's informed commentaries on classical music and his classical compositions of Radiohead, Pink Floyd and Elliott Smith on his weekly radio ...

Le Train Bleu and the Calder Quartet, two ensembles known for championing contemporpary composers, spent the past week performing at Bravo! Vail, including a series of intimate, cabaret-style ...

Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero describes herself as “a globalised, Latin-American woman raised on a diet of European classical music with multiple side-dishes of Pan-American folklore.” Her Piano ...

Ravel’s output for violin and piano clocks in at around 50 minutes, so there’s a generous bonus on this CD in the shape of Guillaume Lekeu’s Violin Sonata. Lekeu, a pupil of Cesar Franck, died in 1894 ...

What a difference an artistic appointment can make. An orchestra’s music director makes many choices during the course of a season, but certainly one of Ludovic Morlot’s best decisions for 2015-16 was ...

I went to the San Diego Symphony concert at the Rady Shell at Jacobs Park on Sunday, May 22. The concert was at 5:00 pm and was locked in the throes of a greyer May than I can remember. The wind ...

As the Saturday morning sun streamed through the stained glass windows of the historic Arlington Street Church, the four members of the Boston Chamber Music Society presented a beautiful rendition of ...

This celebrated Turkish pianist studied under Nadia Boulanger and Alfred Cortot, and was a lifelong disciple of Wilhelm Kempff. Throughout her distinguished career she has played under all the great ...

Stefano Bollani is a popular Italian jazz pianist who also plays classical music. In Rome he performed Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G, conducted by British classical conductor Daniel Harding.

An anthology of Maria Yudina's writings, published in Russia in 2005, highlights her belief that music could save the soul. Yudina (1899-1970) was a leading Russian pianist and a one-off. Stories are ...

With most fine composers, craftsmanship is something you take for granted. It’s the thing that allows the weightier things to shine through, unimpeded. But there is also a kind of music where our ...

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